Well I'm d@mned. Thank you, Ian, for pointing that out.
When you say "never been implemented", does this include
works in progress such as Mozilla, Opera, IE6+ and so on,
and if so, is there any consistency in how they interpret
</> ?
Philip Taylor
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Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>
>>Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>
>>>Any closing tag could be easily replaced with </> because it's clear
>>>in XHTML anyway which starting tag it should be matched with...
>>
>>Oh, if only ... I have never understood why this simple shorthand was
>>omitted from HTML. I suppose it's too late for it to happen now ...
>
>
> It has been in HTML since HTML2. It just has never been implemented
> (except by the validator).
>